Two-thirds of female antelopes bear horns; they are invariably thinner and usually shorter than those of the male.
The hartebeest exhibits slight sexual dimorphism, as both sexes bear horns and have similar body masses.
His reasoning for these plates to be covered in horn is that the surface fossilized plates have a resemblance to the bony cores of horns in other animals known or thought to bear horns, and his reasoning for the plates to be defensive in nature is that the plates had insufficient width for them to stand erect easily in such a manner as to be useful in display without continuous muscular effort.
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The female is usually hornless (a sign of past domestication), but females from Corsica often bear small horns.
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A few extinct crocodylians also bear squamosal horns similar to those of C. anthropophagus, including the osteolaemine Voay robustus from the Quaternary of Madagascar (Fig. 9A)[60], [61], [61].
It is widely accepted that these countries have too many elephants and that expensive population-control measures, including culling, will soon be necessary—hence the desire to establish a legitimate trade in elephant products.And what goes for elephant tusks should go for rhino horns, bear gall-bladders, vicuna wool and mahogany planks.
The leptoceratopsids are characterized by robust jaws equipped with highly specialized large teeth and, unlike derived horned dinosaurs, lack horns and bear an extremely short frill [1], [2].
Otherwise, the Middle Awash, Siwaliks, and Baynunah horn cores all bear a combination of horn core characters that is unique and characteristic, though more and better material will have to be found and described to confidently determine whether this sample represents one or more species.
